Category: 1990s
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Porco Rosso (1992) is one of Studio Ghibli’s more unusual films. Despite its lighthearted tone, the titular character’s cynicism towards war and his more traditionally masculine attitude is a far cry from other male protagonists such as Jiro from The Wind Rises (2013) and Howl from Howl’s Moving Castle (2004). That being said, Porco Rosso…
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When it comes to imperialism, it normally boils down to a few images. Tanks rolling over flattened cities. Flames engulfing fertile forests. Soldiers planting down their nation’s flag after they have successfully won a battle. These images almost always accompany a nation’s creation of gendered identity, which is almost always masculine and visible. But there…
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Eleanor Coppola’s archival footage of her husband’s trials during the filming of Apocalypse Now (1979) remains one of the finest examples of behind-the-scenes footage ever. In one of the most legendary shots of the 1979 Vietnam War classic Apocalypse Now, Captain Willard, played by Martin Sheen in full commando garb, ascends from a lake, his…
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One scene that stood out to me in Swoon (1992) was during the courtroom scene, where the psychologist starts to describe Nathan and Dick’s sexual encounters in front of a homophobic audience. Suddenly, Nathan and Dick are shown in bed, and it appears as though they are about to have sex in front of the…
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